linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] slub: Fix sysfs circular locking dependency

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:30:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] slub: Fix sysfs circular locking dependency

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> New patch that just covers the slub changes.
> 
> Subject: slub: Avoid use of slub_lock in show_slab_objects()
> 
> The purpose of the locking is to prevent removal and additions
> of nodes when statistics are gathered for a slab cache. So we
> need to avoid racing with memory hotplug functionality.
> 
> It is enough to take the memory hotplug locks there instead
> of the slub_lock.
> 
> online_pages() currently does not acquire the memory_hotplug
> lock. Another patch will be submitted by the memory hotplug
> authors to take the memory hotplug lock and describe the
> uses of the memory hotplug lock to protect against
> adding and removal of nodes from non hotplug data structures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/